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Takaya gave Tohru a name normally used only for men because she likes to give masculine names to female characters "to balance them out." [10] In addition, Takaya chose to have other characters address her as "Tohru-kun", using an honorific typically used for boys, because she thought it was "a more dignified form of address." [9]
Pancha Bhuta (/pəɲt͡ʃəbʱuːt̪ᵊ/ ,Sanskrit: पञ्चभूत; pañca bhūta), five elements, is a group of five basic elements, which, in Hinduism, is the basis of all cosmic creation. [1]
In the Visuddhimagga's well-known list of forty meditation objects (kamma ṭṭ hāna), the great elements are listed as the first four objects. B. Alan Wallace compares the Theravada meditative practice of "attending to the emblem of consciousness" to the practice in Mahamudra and Dzogchen of "maintaining the mind upon non-conceptuality ...
The Narakas of Buddhism are closely related to Diyu, the hell in Chinese mythology. A naraka differs from the concept of hell in Christianity in two respects: firstly, beings are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment or punishment ; secondly, the length of a being's stay in a naraka is not eternal, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] though it is ...
Mucilinda (Sanskrit: मुचिलिन्द; Pali: Mucalinda) is a nāga who protected Śākyamuni Buddha from the elements after his enlightenment. [2] It is said that six weeks after Gautama Buddha began meditating under the Bodhi Tree, the heavens darkened for seven days, and a prodigious rain descended. However, the mighty King of ...
A Buddha is a being who is fully awakened and has fully comprehended the Four Noble Truths.In the Theravada tradition, while there is a list of acknowledged past Buddhas, the historical Buddha Sakyamuni is the only Buddha of our current era and is generally not seen as accessible or as existing in some higher plane of existence.
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